V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW43; ru:PSS/v49;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

I am sending the theses. See additions on page 2 1 and 2 2 (they must be inserted in German as well).
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I disagree with you about Alexander. If we do not come to an agreement (you and I), I shall abstain,
and you will be able to decide by one vote that “we have decided to summon him”.

(1) To produce him at the conference means to ruin the man. That is clear. In Sweden
and Norway the Russian government has no spies, but here there are hosts of them. Martov and Co. will blab it all over the place.

I am absolutely against his appearance at the conference; I do not abstain, but am against it.

*—on boycotting!! Ed.

(2) Alexander himself asks that the man be sent to Russia (I shall write to Lyudmila).

(3) Since Alexander is not coming, we must wait and invite him before his departure. Otherwise everything
will be wasted.

(4) There is no need to hurry, because Alexander will be influenced by the Kiev man; we must wait,
correspond, and so on. (By hurrying Alexander’s departure you will hasten his going over to Bukharin and Co., for Alexander is now on edge; but if we wait, the Central Organ will appear, correspondence with the Kiev woman will develop; I shall draw up a s u m m a r y of documents on the wavering of Bukharin and Co.; Alexander will have time to think and see where they are heading, into what a swamp Bukharin and Co. are plunging.)

To summon Alexander now means to fight with him now. What for? Over what? If
he is not coming, we have nothing to fight over. (We shall get connections through the conciliator James and
so on.) (James, of course, is to blame.)
What about Radek’s theses?

We must wait with the issue on self-determination if “Vorbote” No. 2 comes out before the conference. It is extremely important to repulse Radek’s theses at once. Radek must inevitably be flogged, and on his “corpore vili”* we can “save a lot” in flogging the Stockholm people.

Find out more exactly when Kedrov is leaving? 263 Is he still in Berne? Is his wife in Lausanne?

I advise you to be extremely cautious with the Bundist!!! Gardez-vous!**
Salut. Lenin